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Thoughts on a Whimsical Creation by Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill Describing the creation of this album begins as early as the definition of my actual record release strategy for the near future (actually, until early 2010). There had been the idea of a looping-based solo album based on freely improvised material since about mid-2006, only …
Following the lead I´ve taken with Janus, The Cosmo Sessions contain even more recylced material – and this not only because two of the tracks are remixes or cover versions of other songs. The following list contains a directory of all the snippets used in the recordings; some very obvious, some rather garbled. In some cases, samples appear …
The Janus Project has a long and ardous history line – and work on it has started as early as December 1991, when one of the pieces which is to be contained on the record got conceived. During this time, the recording project has been reshaped, renamed, dropped, taken up again, replaced by other projects, forgotten, remembered …
The JANUS Flipsides or THE TRACKS WHICH DIDN´T MAKE IT Total Time: 72:40 A. INTRODUCTION The track sheet shown above is the tracksheet for a fictional – yet theoretically possible, quite interesting and perhaps even practically possible – record, comprised of „flipsides“ of JANUS tunes. All the tracks listed have at one time or another …
In today´s musical world, the concept of samples is increasingly gaining importance. Although the concept of musical quotes is nothing new in music – twoexamples: Richard Wagner quoted passages from his opera Tristan in his Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Anton Webern included a motiv from Johann SebastianBach´s Kunst der Fuge in his Orchesterstücke – only modern recordingtechnology made the „theft“ of recorded musical material …
Weißbier (in my house), formerly named „SCSI Blues“, is a combination of a real primitive wind section, a dirty organ solo and totally stupid vocals. Except for the baritone sax solo, there is really nothing in it.Featured artists: Appelshyme/bs, Kremer/drRecording credits: drum tracks recorded by Guido Kremer Some pop songs have been titled „real summer …
Rainer Straschill, author of this web site, is the project leader for JANUS. He provides all the compositions and arrangements, is responsible for most of the recording, the mastering and all coordination and administration involved. Furthermore, most of the material is performed by himself – all trombone parts, some soprano and alto saxophone tracks, keyboards …
